I’ll be in San Francisco this Thursday night to meet up with fellow members and friends of the IAP2 NorCal chapter. From the IAP2 USA blog: NorCal Chapter Meetup This Thursday in SF As promised, here are the details for this week’s get-together of the Northern California chapter: IAP2 NorCal Meetup Thursday, May 5 fromRead… Read more »
I’ll be in San Francisco this Thursday night to meet up with fellow members and friends of the IAP2 NorCal chapter. From the IAP2 USA blog: NorCal Chapter Meetup This Thursday in SF As promised, here are the details for this week’s get-together of the Northern California chapter: IAP2 NorCal Meetup Thursday, May 5 fromRead… Read more »
This content was originally posted on Phase One Consulting Group’s Government Transformation Blog. Over the past few weeks I had the pleasure of serving as a global judge for the MIT Global Challenge which ended in an exciting awards ceremony Monday in Cambridge, Mass. The Challenge is designed to connect students” with the passion andRead… Read more »
Needing to get from a seminar at the Australian national University to Information Awareness Month the National Library of Australia last night, I decided to take the local ACTION bus. This was my first use of the new Canberra “My Way” smart card bus ticket, which have a few problems. MyWay has been introduced, soRead… Read more »
Greetings from the launch of Information Awareness Month 2011 in the Brindabella Room of the National Library of Australia in Canberra. The Director General of the library opened proceedings by mentioning the need to keep access to information for the public and the excellent way the NLA helps this with the Trove system.One of theRead… Read more »
This week is celebrating two large groups of government employees: Municipal Clerks and all of those in Public Service. Public Service Recognition Week About: Public Service Recognition Week (PSRW) is hosted annually by the Partnership for Public Service and the Public Employees Roundtable. Their website has a “Celebration Toolkit” and an “Events” page to helpRead… Read more »
There is no better time than this week, the congressionally designated Public Service Recognition Week (PSRW), to spread a message of praise, reenergize the workforce and perhaps even issue a challenge to forge ahead to make government work better on behalf of the American people. It is critically important for you as a federal leaderRead… Read more »
Below is a link to an interview with Eric Schmidt that was recently posted by McKinsey. For those of you involved in hiring and managing people, particularly creative people, you may find Schmidt’s early comments on these topics interesting. For those of you in the IT business, you may find Schmidt’s thoughts on mobile computingRead… Read more »
This week marks the 27th annual Public Service Recognition Week celebration around the country. Budget restrictions are keeping activities on a more subtle scale this year – casualties include the annual street fair on the National Mall in DC. Additionally, the current political atmosphere makes it an interesting time altogether to be a public employee.Read… Read more »
When I’m talking at events or to meetings of people within an organisation about the benefits of moving communications and engagement activity online, I often have someone put their hands up and say: I totally get what you are saying, Dave, but the problem is that we can’t move all this stuff online, because notRead… Read more »